It was a stupid comment to make on social media but FFS should she lose her job? What if she can't get another one because of the backlash, she may lose her home, her family etc etc etc. I wish people would think before more before witch hunting online. One stupid comment shouldn't be able to ruin one persons entire life otherwise we'd all be living in the gutter.

@FWB So deal with it internally, suspend her without pay for a month and give a written warning but at least give her a chance to demonstrate it won't happen again. I hate this 'trial by social media'.

wayneh wrote:
@FWB So deal with it internally, suspend her without pay for a month and give a written warning but at least give her a chance to demonstrate it won't happen again. I hate this 'trial by social media'.

Mr-Brett wrote:
It's interesting but as usual with these twitter analysis things it get pretty overblown. Something spreading worldwide isn't the same as "The whole world was waiting for one person’s plane to land..."

Quite a nice summation of why I have pretty much given up on humanity in the modern age - from the tweet, to the reaction, to the bloodthirsty bandwagon, to the "claiming I got there first", to her getting fired, to this analysis article, and lastly to me feeling the need to comment on it, and my post-modernist comment on my comment....

Tech predictions are pretty good, but I thought this one was very prescient:

[M]ankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical speciality in 2014.”

I suspect there's an element of that, the old Art imitating Life and vise versa. Also I wasn't around 50 years ago so couldn't say for sure but I imagine some of it was fairly safe bets. What I find most interesting is how close some of it is to the date, in the last year we've had lab grown burgers and satellites communicating with laser appear, I guess these were established things in his prediction but still.

Philip K Dick made some similarly accurate predictions, but they are both extrapolating from existing tech really, I guess. 50 years predictions are not as impressive as hundred year ones. Still interesting though.